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male and female specimens of Arctia mendica from County 

 Cork ; lie also exhibited, for comparison, two specimens of 

 A. mendica from Antrim, and a series of bred specimens from 

 the London District. Some of the males from Cork were as 

 white as the typical English females, but the majority of 

 them were of a smoky-white colour, intermediate between the 

 form last mentioned and the typical English form. 



Mr. Enock exhibited an example of a species of Hemiptera 

 — Calocoris bipunctatus — containing an internal parasitic larva. 



Dr. Sharp exhibited three species of Coleoptera new to the 

 British list, viz. : — 1. Octhebius auriculatus, Key, found by 

 Messrs. Champion and Walker some years ago in the Isle of 

 Sheppey, but described only quite recently by M. Eey from 

 specimens found at Calais and Dieppe. 2. Limnius rivularis, 

 Eosenh., found by the late Dr. J. A. Power at Woking; 

 the species, though not uncommon in Southern Europe, had 

 not, he believed, been previously found farther north than 

 Central France. 3. Tropiphorus obtusus, Bonsd., taken by 

 himself on the banks of Water of Cairn between Irongray and 

 Dunscore, Dumfriesshire; he had considered previously that 

 this might be the male of T. mercurialis, but M. Fauvel, who 

 was studying the European species of the genus, informed 

 him this was not the case, and he had no doubt was correct 

 in his view. He also exhibited a Goliathus, recently described 

 by Dr. 0. Nickerl as a new species, under the name of 

 G. atlas, and remarked that the species existed in several 

 collections, and had been supposed to be possibly a hybrid 

 between G. regius and G. cacicas, as its characters appeared 

 to be exactly intermediate between those of the two species 

 named. Dr. Sharp also exhibited a living example of the 

 mole-cricket, GryUotalpa ruh/aris, from Southampton; between 

 the spines of its hind legs were a number of living Acarid®, 

 placed in a symmetrical manner, so as to appear as if they 

 formed a part of the structure of the limb. 



Mr. Eland Shaw exhibited two species of Orthoptera which 

 had been unusually common this year, viz., Nemubiiis sylvestris 

 from the New Forest, and Tettix subulattis from Char mouth, 

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Mr. E. B. Poulton exhibited the cocoons of three species 



